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Poor diets cost the UK in health, productivity & quality of life - change is a win–win. Read our latest digest on what our Roadmap for Resilience report says about how we can make healthier diets easier for everyone. 👉 tinyurl.com/37z979x4 #AFNRoadmap
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Today, we’re diving into what our Roadmap for Resilience report says about land. How do we need to transform land use to support a resilient, sustainable food system & healthy diets? Our digest breaks it down. 👉 tinyurl.com/2xtynfs5 #UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap
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Stronger, more resilient farming - that's one of the three core transformations set out in our Roadmap for Resilience report, published last week. For more on the vision for farming, the co-benefits and the priority actions, read our digest👉 tinyurl.com/mf2zrjby #AFNRoadmap
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8/ To hear more about the key findings, recommendations and implications for policy and practice, sign up to the webinar: tinyurl.com/35c7ntjw Or read our news story: tinyurl.com/8v5edtu5 #UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap #FoodSecurity #ClimateAction #SustainableFarming
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6/ The report calls for decisive and coordinated action, and proposes 10 key recommendations, with a timeline up to 2050. These include: - Placing food security on a par with energy security - Creating a National Food System Transformation Committee - Reform ag subsidies
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5/ Healthier diets: Healthy and sustainable eating will be easy, accessible and desirable.
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4/ Smarter land use: UK landscapes will provide multiple benefits through integrated management – sequestering carbon, producing food, enhancing biodiversity and building climate resilience.
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3/ The Roadmap for Resilience report identifies three core transformations: More resilient farming, adapting in a way that supports farmers and rural economies, and builds national resilience.
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1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2. Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy #AFNRoadmap
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🥸Check out our latest round-up, which includes a host of events, not least our forthcoming webinar, a new slurry prediction tool (who doesn’t need one of those?) and more on the launch of Culture Roots Collective tinyurl.com/yc6w8fzz
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👉WEBINAR: De-risking the farming transition – what can we do? Our first Autumn webinar: Farming businesses face many barriers when trying to change practices; one of them is risk. How can risk be reduced so they can move forward with confidence? tinyurl.com/5n9xevfj
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👉Job vacancy: Chief Scientific Adviser at the Food Standards Agency, “a rare opportunity to bring your scientific expertise to the forefront of protecting public health and ensuring trust in the food we eat”. Application deadline 7th September 2025 civilservicejobs.service.gov…

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What might a food system transition mean for the animals in the farmed system? Find out more in this briefing, based on our recent webinar. 📖tinyurl.com/mrxaru33 🐤
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VIDEO UPDATE: If you missed our fascinating webinar on whether weight-loss jabs help or hinder a sustainable dietary shift, the video is available now 📽️tinyurl.com/2p9txz4c🎬
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🎉 We’ve just hit 3,000 members! 🎂 Thank you to every single person who’s joined our network, shared ideas, made connections, and helped build something special. We’re proud of the community we’re creating together. And if you haven't joined up yet, visit agrifood4netzero.net/join-us…
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👋Have you had chance to complete our survey yet? We want to understand what our members value most about our Network so that we can shape our future structure and approach in a way that works for you. It takes less than 10 minutes 👉tinyurl.com/3u9kpwe2 🙏
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As our UKRI funding ends we need to explore sustainable ways to continue supporting our vibrant community - Member input will directly shape our future structure &approach so we'd really appreciate if you could take <10 minutes to complete our survey?👉 tinyurl.com/3u9kpwe2 🙏
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Thanks to everyone who who visited our tent at #Groundswell2025 . Whether you stopped for a chat or joined one of our sessions, it was fantastic to see so many of you, and a special thanks to our brilliant speakers!
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Day 2 at #Groundswell25 with 2 fab sessions already under our belt and 2 more to look forward to: 💹 De-risking the transition – collective insurance and green financing 2-3pm 💷 Salary sacrifice – a tool to support sustainable farming? More details here 👉tinyurl.com/2jnadcm5
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👋Have you got a spare 10 minutes to take our survey? Funding for our Network ends later this year & we’re exploring new ways to continue. We want to hear your views on what you value most about us and what you’d like to see from us in the future 👉tinyurl.com/3u9kpwe2
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#Groundswell25 What a day! A full (to bursting) house for Professor Tim Lang, an excellent Alternative Proteins session & a lovely tea break.Lots more to come tomorrow starting at 9am with 🗳️How do we get voters to care about food systems transformation?☑️ tinyurl.com/2jnadcm5
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👋We're super excited to be at #Groundswell25 with a full programme of panel discussions, talks and opportunities to chat - Please come and see us at C26 in the pasture field 🐄 Full programme here 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnadcm5
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👋 We're delighted to be hosting a tent at #Groundswell25! Please come and find us at C26 in the pasture field 🐄We've got a variety of sessions going on across both days with a great diversity of speakers. Find our up-to-date session timings here👉tinyurl.com/2jnadcm5
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📢 We can't wait for @Groundswellaguk next week & one of the sessions we're really excited about is this one led by our AFN Champions👉🗳️ How do we get voters to care about food systems transformation? ☑️ Join us 3 July at 9am, C26 in the Pasture Field 🐄tinyurl.com/2jnadcm5
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🚨Last chance to sign up for our 2pm webinar tomorrow: Animal welfare, net zero & the food transition: trade-offs & opportunities. We will delve into ethical &practical questions about animal welfare when transitioning the food system &reducing emissions👉 tinyurl.com/nh4tpjku
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Animal welfare, net zero & the food transition: trade-offs & opportunities 🗓️Friday 23/5 at 2pm Next weeks webinar will be delving into the ethical &practical questions raised about animal welfare, when transitioning the food system &reducing emissions👉 tinyurl.com/nh4tpjku
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📢 ❗ WEBINAR: Time to throw off ‘nanny state’ fears – what do UK citizens want from their food? 💪Mhairi Brown from @FFC_Commission will be sharing findings from the FFCC's latest report from #TheFoodConversation ahead of its publication. tinyurl.com/mwy7uer9
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Our 2025 Board for #EarlyCareerResearchers (ECRs) has been appointed & started work. With a wide range of interests &expertise from across the #agrifood system our ECRs will meet &discuss important network issues working closely with our Champions. More ➡ tinyurl.com/bdd8k8eu
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What does the Carbon Budget really mean for farming, UK diets & land based sectors?Will farmers really be better off pursuing #netzero? How did @theCCCuk come to conclusions &recommendations? What gaps in knowledge &data did it face that we can help plug? tinyurl.com/376esc32 x.com/AFNnetwork/status/1907…
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💡5/5 Community Supported Agriculture Network UK, working in partnership with Organic Growers Alliance, will produce resources on “Crop planning for uncertain times”&“Infrastructure for uncertain times” for small-scale agroecological market gardeners 👉 tinyurl.com/2vrs82js
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💡4/5 Third Stakeholder FlexFund project👉Emergent Generation will bring together a diverse range of young people aged 18 to 35 (the Emergent Generation) to attend a one-day net-zero workshop 👉 tinyurl.com/388yha53
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💡3/5 Second Stakeholder FlexFund project 👉Joy of Food will conduct three Food Conversations in Norwich using the toolkit produced by @FFC_Commission 👉 tinyurl.com/32zx5jcy
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💡2/5 First Stakeholder FlexFund project to share👉 @PastureForLife will deliver six in-person and six online farmer-farmer knowledge exchange events for the farming community across Wales 👉 tinyurl.com/35zswvjv 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾
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💷1/5 We're delighted to announce that our last round of Stakeholder FlexFund projects have been awarded! We’ll share details of each project over the next few days & you can find out more about all of the projects we've funded to date here👉 tinyurl.com/2p2svsw8
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In a joint webinar with @FFC_Commission, our speakers shared insights from their latest research, which followed concerns raised by citizens in #TheFoodConversation – and explain why questions of power and profit need to rise up the political agenda. tinyurl.com/b6ww3hw
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🎪& now it's over to our delegates in the 'Unconference' part of our #AFNBigTent - Topics proposed include: engaging farmers, elephants in the room, precision breeding/genetics, seafood's role in #netzero , exciting planet friendly diets, conservation agriculture & lots more!
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🎪Amazing to have Emma Pinchbeck (Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee) speaking for us at #AFNBigTent about the CCC's remit and the 7th Carbon Budget
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Really interesting to see how Networks can help make a difference to #agrifood research and practice. Big thanks to our fab panel for sharing their insights & to our #AFNBigTent attendees for joining in the conversation 🙏
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Kicking off day 2 of #AFNBigTent with a thought provoking panel 👉Can UK land solve net zero, self-sufficiency and public health? Some great insights from our fab panel expertly chaired by AFN Champion @emilymnorton
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🎪#AFNBigTent A well deserved drink at the end of Day 1 & an opportunity to look at some of the posters our fantastic #ECRs & funded projects have created👉tinyurl.com/uvwv2wx7
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A just transition should result in a society where everyone shares in the benefits of climate action. What are the steps we need to take to achieve such a transition? 🎪Our panel talk this afternoon is doing a great job of trying to address this #AFNBigTent
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Great to hear some really interesting conversations and opinions about our Roadmap work at the #AFNBigTent 🎪Lots to think about as we progress this set of proposed pathways that we're developing for how UK agri-food could be transformed for a net zero UK tinyurl.com/369s6wu
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🎪An insightful opening talk from Prof Bob Doherty at the #AFNBigTent as he shared his thoughts on 'Working across the Science-Policy Boundary' with us - "So many opportunities to inform UK policy" 👇
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🎪Lovely to see so many familiar & new faces at our #AFNBigTent this year!
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#AFNBigTent starts tomorrow! We’ve got a fab line-up of keynote speakers, panel discussions &breakout sessions & we’re really looking forward to sharing (& getting your contributions to) the work we’ve been doing on our Roadmap! 🎪tinyurl.com/yeyve4tn
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Excited to hear what our delegates &panel can share with us about how our Network might have impacted them at #AFNBigTent Delighted @SingleDadSW @unisouthampton, @SaherHasnain @Oxford_univer, India Langley & Zainab Oyetunde-Usman @Rothamsted are joining us!tinyurl.com/yeyve4tn
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Looking forward to this Panel at #AFNBigTent next week👉'Can UK land solve net zero, self-sufficiency and public health?' Chaired by @emilymnorton & with @AliMorpeth, Lee-Ann Sutherland @JamesHuttonInst, Kate Bannister @NFUtweets & Tom Lafford @DefraGovUK tinyurl.com/yeyve4tn
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Want a quick digest of the Climate Change Committee’s 7th Carbon Budget? Want to know why we’ve used a photo of a kebab? Find both here👉tinyurl.com/59nfkrcw
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We're delighted @RiazGFS will be a keynote speaker at our #AFNBigTent.Riaz provides strategic leadership to UKRI’s @FoodSecurityUK &drives forward cross-stakeholder, interdisciplinary activities whilst also overseeing BBSRC’s thematic research challenges👉tinyurl.com/yeyve4tn
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Carbon markets are not working for nature recovery. Why? What can we do about it? @UniofOxford economics professor @t8el & our policy champion and natural capital markets expert @emilymnorton will be discussing these questions in our webinar🗓️ Friday 9am tinyurl.com/yff2d7wv
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The @BritishAcademy_ has launched a call thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prog… for discussion papers on its public policy theme on Sustainable Futures. The deadline for proposals is 12 March 2025, and there is a Q&A webinar next Thursday (27 February), 10:00-11:00am.
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We're excited to announce two keynote speakers for next month’s #AFNBigTent AGM: Prof Bob Doherty (@UniOfYork @FixOurFoodteam) Emma Pinchbeck, Chief Exec of @theCCCuk Learn more about the Big Tent: tinyurl.com/yeyve4tn
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Why carbon markets aren't a good model for investing in nature recovery. Listen to AFN Policy Champion @emilymnorton in conversation with Oxford University economist Alex Teytelboym in our forthcoming webinar, 28/2/25 9am tinyurl.com/yff2d7wv
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Following up on Tim Lang’s recent webinar, and his now-published report, you can read our webinar briefing tinyurl.com/4drena84, watch the video of the webinar agrifood4netzero.net/resourc… or read the digest of Tim's report tinyurl.com/3x362upt
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Last chance to have your voice heard on the potential of breeding to reduce industry emissions - Please check out the below and complete the survey by the end of the day tomorrow (31st Jan)👇 tinyurl.com/46vjswz4
🐄Please share your thoughts on industry emissions and how genetic improvement can reduce emissions per unit of produce in the livestock & horticulture sectors in the UK by completing this 5 minute survey 📋tinyurl.com/46vjswz4 by the 31st Jan 🙏
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"How can the notion of resilience (the capacity to bounce back from shock) be applied to the UK food system? The word is used endlessly but thinly." Hear Prof Tim Lang speak about this & much more in our webinar next week 👇21/01/25 11am tinyurl.com/mr2rfmsk
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Panel at #OFC25 including @navaratnampart1 and @SingleDadSW, who first met at our Big Tent last year. Want to make connections like this? Why not come to this year’s event? eventbrite.co.uk/e/afn-netwo…
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Lídia Cabral at #ORFC25, discussing the Roots of Change project, agrifood4netzero.net/funding… funded by the AFN Network+. Sitting next to her is Laura Stratford, from @food_lincoln, who coincidentally have also received AFN funding. agrifood4netzero.net/funding… and agrifood4netzero.net/funding…
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Our 1st 2025 webinar is with @ProfTimLang following his latest research into the UK's preparedness (or not) for food system shocks. He will draw on his upcoming report for the National Preparedness Commission addressing the state of civil food resilience 👉tinyurl.com/mptkfbf6
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We know farmers across the country are experiencing huge challenges from changing agricultural policy, new tax regimes &extreme weather to name just a few. AFN Champion for Behaviour Change Amy Jackson has developed this survey to give farmers a voice 👉tinyurl.com/4sm5yy5j
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